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Spinning our wheels trying to get hold of the evidence underlying the mueller report, trying to get hold of the mueller report itself. we've gone to court to do that now, but our investigation has to expand. we're trying to move by the end of the year to determine whether we're going to file articles of impeachment or not. and there are a number of things beyond the mueller report that we need to look at. we need to look at whether there was corruption in the election, we need to look at, you know, the president's profiting off his public position, and we need to look at whether he's abusing h...

>> thank you. >> so we have heard the chairman of your committee, chairman nadler, say that the impeachment inquiry is under way. but this is going to be a formal vote. how will this vote change what's happening going forward? >> we spent a great deal of time spinning our wheels trying to get hold of the evidence underlying the mueller report, trying to get hold of the mueller report itself. we've gone to court to do that now, but our investigation has to expand. we're trying to move by the end of the year to determine whether we're going to file articles of impeachment or not. and there are a...

And the abuse of the use of pardons, which is a pretty broad use provided in the constitution, is deeply troubling. he promised -- he says he was joking -- his aides who expressed concern that some of what he was asking them to do was against the law. he said, well, i'll pardon you. don't worry about it. go ahead and do it anyhow. if that is accurate, he is urging staff members to commit violations of law, crimes, in return for which he'll promise them a pardon. that is itself potentially criminal activity on the part of the president. >> potentially impeachable? >> absolutely. you know, we ha...

The president. >> potentially impeachable? >> absolutely. you know, we had a governor of, i think, tennessee, you know, a number of years ago who went to jail for selling pardons, for offering pardons in exchange for something of value. and that's what president trump is doing here if this story is accurate. >> all right, jerry connelly, democratic congressman from virginia, thank you very much for being with us tonight. do appreciate your time. >> my pleasure. >> up next, reaction from a former intelligence insider to new remarks by former defense secretary james mattis about his relationship...

That aides take the land and get it done." both papers report the president spoke of seizing property and then suggested offering pardons to aides who break the law, something that has been suggested before. the "times" went on to report, "a senior administration official did not deny that mr. trump had made the comments but said that the president had been joking. he winks when he does it, that person said, and added that mr. trump had never seriously suggested the idea of pardons." the "times" also reports, "what white house officials have walked back as lighthearted suggestions in the past ...